What this novel offers Bond enthusiasts is the chance to see how it influenced other Bond movies besides the one it gives its name to. Illustration ©2019 Fay Dalton from The Folio Society edition of Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die However, Mr Big’s nefarious plot is a clever racket in smuggling gold that Bond must locate, infiltrate and smash. Live and Let Die is a treasure trove for James Bond fans – there’s a healthy amount of the big screen adventure that survives intact, such as Bond’s adventure in Harlem tracking down Mr Big, the involvement of Bond girl and psychic medium Solitaire, a subplot about voodoo and, delightfully, the chair that spins around to send Bond into Mr Big’s lair (without Moore’s excellent quip about a “funny turn”). It’s always interesting for aficionados of both the books and the films to see what the producers salvaged from Fleming’s characters and plot, and what was reinvented for the big screen. It’s easy to forget that, because it was the movie that introduced Roger Moore – the third Bond – to the role of the super spy two decades after the book was published. Fleming writes.' And the Times thought Live and Let Die 'is an ingenious affair, full of recondite knowledge and horrific spills and thrills - of slightly sadistic excitements also - though without the simple and bold design of its predecessor.Live and Let Die is only the second James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming (after his debut with Casino Royale), originally appearing in 1954. The novel's innovations were positively noted by The Sunday Times when they wrote 'ow wincingly well Mr. and his knowledge of Jamaica itself, where Live and Let Die was written at Fleming's 'Goldeneye' estate. The inspiration for these changes came from Fleming's experiences of travel in the U.S. Almost single-handedly, he revived popular interest in the spy novel, spawning legions of imitations, parodies, and critical and fictional reactions Through the immense success of the filmed versions of his books, his character James Bond became the best known fictional personality of his time and Fleming the most famous writer of thrillers since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle' (Reilly, 571). 'Fleming accomplished an extraordinary amount in the history of the thriller. A very attractive example, scarce in this condition. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

The first edition consisted of 7,500 copies.

Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket without credit for the jacket design and art, with some light rubbing to the spine.

First edition of the second James Bond novel.

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